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You shouldn't trust billionaires at all. Even the "good ones". You don't get a billion net worth without exploiting people

"Young people increasingly don't appear to be incredibly dumb, survey finds."

I don’t trust anyone who is impressed by LLMs enough to consider them to be in any way adjacent to intelligence.

I'm so blackpilled on the average person. These stats mean nothing because the average person not trusting a tech company does absolutely nothing to push them away from it. 80% distrust AI but 50% use it and the stat is growing.

billionaires tell people to love the thing they are trying to get them hooked on so that they can run a rampant monopoly and make some more billions.

If you remove yourself from the equation maybe there is some chance. So if you really love AI, perhaps fuck off.

Maybe the kids are gonna be alright, after all.

my experience, that all my collegues who are aroubd 28-35, use a shitload of ai. younger generation is now using it instead of google search.

As an old person I can also say that old people don't trust AI, or the leaders of those companies, or the current administration...

I don't just think AI should be regulated, I think everyone at the hyperscaler companies should be criminally indicted. Every employee at OpenAI and Anthropic working on AI development should be indicted on 8 million counts of child endangerment.

The relevant statute is California 273a.

It is a crime in the state of California to allow a child to be placed in a position where great harm could come to them. For example, people have been indicted under this statute because they had drugs in the same house as young children. Even if no children are actually hurt, simply putting them in a situation where harm is likely is the crime.

It would normally be quite difficult to prove that the actions of OpenAI and others are endangering children. But the very words of these companies would be the first exhibit of the prosecution. They've openly confessed to their crimes! These very same companies and their leaders have repeatedly said that they're building machines that they themselves believe have a reasonable chance of destroying humanity. And the children of California are a subset of humanity.

Whether their claims are realistic or not, I cannot say. But I simply cannot believe that it is legal to build a machine that you yourself believe could destroy the world. We're so glazed over by the novelty of AI that we forget to treat it like any other threat. In most places it is a crime to perform some action that you believe has a realistic chance of hurting people, even if you have no intention or desire to hurt people.

Well, according to OpenAI, the machines they are building represent a very real risk to the life and safety of every child in the State of California. I see no reason that they shouldn't be charged with millions of counts of child endangerment. According to their own words, they are literally putting the lives of children at risk. That is a crime. That is not legal. And we should stop pretending it is.

I mean, the marketing people should have been able to tell management that too.

Trust the parasite class! I mean, what could possibly go wrong, right..?

Good. Young people are hip to what's going on and that is uplifting.

Most everything I do is local but I don’t trust AI anymore than I trust any other tool. If it gives code that works or instructions to do what I need great. Even when it’s wrong I’m learning something new.

I totally agree about the billionaires. I absolutely don’t trust these dickheads running the shit show… Sam Altman, Jensen Huang, Elon Musk, Dario Amodei, Sundar Pichai, Satya Nadella, Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Ellison… Fuck everyone of these guys. Everyone of them is a rich asshole trying to scheme as much as they can out of the system. I think their end goal is to put people out of work so they can automate as much as possible so they don’t rely on anything else. If AGI or superintelligence arrives within the decade, whoever controls it controls the economy that follows. It will be such a game changer nobody is even close to prepared for it.

Go read “I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream” by Harlan Ellison, Hyperion by Dan Simmons, Colossus by D.F. Jones, or maybe Accelerando by Charles Stross. None of these end well.

I've been in IT since 2007 I've been with computers since 1994 with a second hand MS DOS.

AI is 100 very good for scientists and people in the medical industry (I don't know why, but I know they've all told me it's good for them). Outside of the above.. Everything else about AI is pointless.. It's just googling things slightly faster than I can google things.

AI is not making my life easier. My gas is not cheaper. Food is still the 2nd highest spend behind housing. Its just not a thing that people with grass to mow need beyond maybe a better search engine.

With ai hallucinations..Ai fakery and the topmost reason being layoffs being attributed increasingly to AI...I don't think so there's anything much to love about AIs. When billionaires tell the society to love something... it's because there's 10000% profit for them in that and almost none for us masses.

Its me! I am young again!

Nah, why would anyone love AI when we can just--

Let's all love Lain!

there you go! keep using that noggin!